Update

The Dame Mary British Citizen Group Award 

‘The Dame Mary Perkins British Citizen Youth Group You can nominate a local group from your region for the 2025 honours by completing the form here.

OPEN FOR NOMINATIONS 2025

Excellent opportunity to recognise your colleagues…

Do you want to recognise individuals in your workplace community for exceeding expectations, for going the extra mile, for helping others to excel, or perhaps for their work in the community, volunteering or fundraising? Well, if so, we have an exciting opportunity which gives you access to recognising them with the most prestigious civil accolade in existence.

Through partnering with The People’s Honours, CEOs can now recommend people in their organisation for a Medal of Honour through our CEO Award. Click here to find out more or email saray@britishcitizenawards.co.uk.

The People’s Honours List 2024 – The British Citizen Award 

Congratulations to all medalists and welcome to BCA family

We are delighted to announce the 28 individuals making up the 2024 People’s Honours List. Each individual was presented with their Medal of Honour at a prestigious ceremony at the Palace of Westminster on 25th July 2024.

This special group were presented with their medals by TV presenter and journalist Matt Allwright, together with an impressive array of senior individuals from the BCA supporters’ community including One Stop, Specsavers, Places for People, Objective HR, Big Bus London.

The latest group to be honoured with the BCA, have collectively, supported their varied and divergent causes for a staggering 482 years, raised in excess of £3.34 million, and positively impacted over 886,840 people.

Massive congratulations and welcome to the BCA family to each and every one of our July 2024 honourees.

FROM THE PEOPLE’S HONOURS TO THE KING’S HONOURS…

CONGRATULATIONS to another 3 BCA and 3 BCyA Medalists
who have now been recognised by the Cabinet Office in 2024:

Read their stories here:

 Tony Hudgell BCyA (2021) – BEM
Travis Frain BCA (2023) – OBE
Allan Bell BCA (2021) – MBE
Elly Neville BCyA (2016) – BEM
Louis Johnson BCyA (2016) – BEM
Moira Brock BCA (2022)- BEM

BCA/BCyA OPEN FOR NOMINATIONS (Free to enter)  – click here

The People’s Honours List 2024 – The British Citizen YOUTH Award 

The latest group of exceptional individuals to receive The British Citizen Youth Award have generated a staggering amount of media coverage in just a few days since the presentation ceremony at The Palace of Westminster.

Between them, the 24 individuals and the Dame Mary Perkins British Citizen Youth Group, have reached an audience of over 40 million. There have been appearances on TV, Radio and many have been featured in national and regional newspapers and some have appeared in a dedicated double-page spread in the foremost newspaper for young people, First News.

First news Editor-in-Chief and Patron of The BCyA, Nicky Cox MBE, presented medals to five of the 24 being honoured at the presentation ceremony on 16th October 2023. To round off proceedings, the official ceremony was followed by an Open Top Lap of Honour Tour taking in some of the iconic sites of Westminster, and showing off our medalists to the throngs of onloookers.